Hon. Somerset Arthur Maxwell

http://ww2.letters.ie/0001/0007.html ... "On the morning of the new Year's Eve we had news that Lt. Col. The Hon. Somerset A. Maxwell, O.C. Middlesex Yeomanry, sometime Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for War, and M.P. for kings Lynn had died at 2030 hrs. the previous night following wounds sustained in action. The funeral was to be the same afternoon and as the cemetery was nearby we old originals turned out. When we arrived our party brought the M.Y. contingent up to 30 exclusive of bearer party and officers. The plain coffin was slid off the ambulance on to the shoulders of 8 NCOs and OCTU cadets and preceded by the chaplain passed through the ranks of the firing party who stood at the Present. Behind followed General Penney, CSO.ME., COl. Messel, former C.O. of the unit and several other officers of ours, after them came ourselves who have served under him for so long, the journey was short but at the slow march it seemed a long way, nut at the length we formed up round the coffin on which the flag trembled in the wind. The service was almost inaudible as planes taking off nearby drowned everthing, except the words of the 23rd. Psalm. They lowered the coffin into the grave, and the escort fired three rounds into the air and the bugler's sobbing notes ran from Last Post to Reveille. The wreaths were placed and one by one we stepped up to the grave and made our last salutes. Freddie was rather cut up, they were in the same firm on the Stock Exchange and Fred had been at his wedding. We both got a bit tight that night. Funny, its the first ceremonial funeral that I've attended. I'm glad that so many of us were able to be present. He was a fine man, and its stinking rotten luck that he should have got so near to recovery and then packed in. Anyway, maybe its as well, he'd never have been able to walk again."

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